I am using Ubuntu. Ok. I didn't know it is operating system dependent. Changing the keyboard layout won't work in this case then :(
thanks anyway karel On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 17:45 +0900, John Darrington wrote: > Which operating system are you using? Setting environment variables > is operating system dependent. The command I gave you should work > for nearly all GNU/Linux systems. If you're using a different OS, > then you need to read the instructions for that (or ask someone who > knows). > > J' > > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 09:49:17PM -0200, Karel Novotny wrote: > Thanks for prompt help, John. > > I am using Gui version (psppire) where can I type the export command you > mention. Or is that possible only in command line version? > > It would be great to be able to make this change permanently since I am > going to be working only with files in one particular (non-english) > encoding. Is there a way to do this? > > thanks for any tips > > karel > > > > On Sun, 2008-12-07 at 08:22 +0900, John Darrington wrote: > > Pspp assumes that the sav file's encoding is the same as the current > > locale. If that's not true, then you can change the LC_CTYPE > environment > > variable to match the encoding of the file. > > > > > > For example, the file at > > http://savannah.gnu.org/file/databas.sav?file_id=1906 is encoded > > in ISO-8859-1, whereas my system default is UTF-8. When I open it, > > the non-ascii characters appear as '?'. But if I type > > "export LC_CTYPE=en_AU.ISO-8859-1" then it displays properly. > > > > Hope this helps. > > > > J' > > > > On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 05:52:17PM -0200, Karel Novotny wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Anyone can advise me how to change encoding in PSPP so as not to > load > > files with non-english characters crooked when loading a sav file? > > > > thanks > > > > karel > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Pspp-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users > _______________________________________________ Pspp-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pspp-users
